Fruit and vegetable cutter



M. KIRNBAUER. FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14' 1922.

V Patented May 9, 1922.

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MIoHA nkIRn AUEa, or roansr PARK, minors I Q} "Be it known that LIlII CHAEL IQlRNBAUER, a former subject of -the Austria l lungary Empire, (who has declai'ed his' intention I of becoming a citizen, of the United States of America,) and a re'sident' o f ForestPark, in the county of Cook and: State of Illinois, ha-ve invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit and Vegetable Cutters,-

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that type of fruit and vegetable slicing implements in which the cutter blade is mounted intransverse-relation on a fiat work board or trough, along which the material to be sliced is reciprocated by hand and past the cutter blade to attain the desired slicing result. And this improvement has for its objectsi 'To provide a simple and efficient structural formation and association of parts whereby the cutter blade can be adjusted in an even and uniform manner in relation to the surface of the work board to attain a desired thickness in the slicing operation;

To provide a reversible form" of slicing implement adapted to attain either a slicing or a shreddingof the material operated on,

and in which a simple and efficient arrangement of the shredding cutter is provided,

all as willhereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1, is a perspective. view of a slicing implement embodying the present invention. v

Fig. 2, is a detail sectional plan view. with parts removed to show the adjusting means of the slicing cutter.

Fig. 3, is a detail longitudinal section on line 33, Fig. 2.

Fig. .1, is a similar view on line 4-4. Fig. 2.

Fig. 5, is. av detail plan view, with parts rnor'rnlvn VEGETABLE Curran,

Specincation of Letters Patent.= I 1922. 1 Applic tion filed Januar 114., 1922. Serial n. 529,108.

portions of thejwork 'plate .1, i beneath the strips 2, with thelr flanges formingbeairings for; theflrevoluble carrying shaft fo'f" the blade now to "bedescribedr I Y designates the slicer blade of aflat rec I d tangul ar form arranged tran'svers'ely between the bracket plates 3' aforesaid, with its'rea'r Or-b-utt e'n'd fixedly a'ttachedf'to' a transverse carrying shaft or rod 5 j ournalledin orifices in said bracket plates.

6 designates an angularly arranged arm or extension on one end of the shaft 5 aforesaid, formed at its outer end' with gear teeth adapted for operativeengagement with the hereinafter described. operating worm or screw shaft, as shown in Fig. 4, to attain a pivotal adjustment of the slicer blade 4 4 designates abridge plate secured to one of the bracket'plates3 and formed with a carried by said shaft 5.

7' i journal orifice in said bracket 8 designates a revoluble shaft journalled .7

in the orifices of the bridge and bracket plates above described and formed with stop shoulders for engagement with said plates to hold the shaft against endwise movement after an assembly of the parts.

9 designates a thumb nut or other like operating means on the outer end of the shaft 8 for the convenient turning of the same by hand in effecting an adjustment of the slicing cutter and its carrying shaft 5' aforesaid.

10 designates a worm or screwformed on the intermediate portion of the shaft 8 and having operative engagement'with the gear teeth on the outer end ofthe arm or extension 6 aforesaid. 'With such construction of v serted in the material of thework board .1 in transverse spaced. relationto eachother, and preferably in oblique relation to the surface of said work board. j j

Y 12 designates outlet orifices extending throu h the work board 1 beneath the above I I I descri ed slicing and. shredding cutters, for

the outlet of the sliced or shredded material as the same is produced in a continued operation of the implement.

15 designates a hand opening in the end of the work board 1 for convenient holding of the implement in proper position during the practical use of the same.

Having thus fully described my'invcntion, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a slicing implement, a fiat work board, a cutter blade arranged transversely of the same, a shaft journalled transversely on said Work board and having a lateral arm at one end, the butt of the cutter blade being secured to said shaft, and means for imparting a turning movement to said arm and its associated parts, the same comprising gear teeth on the outer end of the lateral arm, and a worm shaft journalled in the work board and having operative engagement with the gear teeth of said arm.

2. In a slicing implement, a fiat work board having side guide strips, bracket plates secured beneath said guide strips, a transverse shaft journalled in said bracket plates and having a lateral arm at one end, a cutter blade carried by said shaft, a bridge plate attached to one of said bracket plates, a worm shaft journalled in said bridge and bracket plates and having an operating means on its outer end, the lateral arm aforesaid having gear teeth on its outer end for operative engagement with the worm shaft aforesaid.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 11th day of January, 1922-.

MICHAEL KIRNBAUER. 

